NC Justice Center urges lawmakers to restore the safety nets jeopardized by the federal funding crisis

(Raleigh, NC – Nov 5, 2025) Already facing high housing and health care costs and low-paying jobs, 1.34 million North Carolinians must now worry about how they will feed their children because of the failures of our federal and state lawmakers to do their jobs. 

Congress, the administration, and our state leaders have a moral and legal responsibility to ensure that people can meet their most basic needs—yet they continue to play politics with the nation’s food assistance and health care programs, threatening the health and stability of children, seniors, and people with disabilities across our state.  

Everyone suffers when the basic needs of our community members aren’t met. We oppose the values lawmakers represent when they cut funding to essential services and programs, deny pay to federal workers, and delay and reduce essential benefits for the most vulnerable among us. Already overstretched, food banks and churches cannot fill the gap left by federal and state neglect of their communities’ basic needs. 

“The NC Justice Center urges Congress and the administration to end this manufactured crisis harming vulnerable communities, immediately restore and fully fund SNAP benefits, and preserve funding for enhanced premium tax credits for ACA Marketplace plans that help people afford care,” said Nicole Director, Interim Director of Legislative Advocacy and Director of the Health Advocacy Project at the NC Justice Center. 

As leaders in Washington threaten to weaken and dismantle critical safety nets, The NC Justice Center holds the North Carolina General Assembly accountable to its responsibility to defend the well-being of North Carolinians by fully funding essential services like SNAP and Medicaid. We must prioritize keeping our communities healthy, nourished, and secure.